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<h2>Unemployment of Blue Collar Workers </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a cross-section from 1972
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  4877
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> :  individuals
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Benefits)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A time serie containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>stateur</dt><dd><p>state unemployment rate (in %)</p>
</dd>
<dt>statemb</dt><dd><p>state maximum benefit level</p>
</dd>
<dt>state</dt><dd><p>state of residence code</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age in years</p>
</dd>
<dt>tenure</dt><dd><p>  years of tenure in job lost</p>
</dd>
<dt>joblost</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels (slack\_work,position\_abolished,seasonal\_job\_ended,other)</p>
</dd>
<dt>nwhite</dt><dd><p>non-white ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>school12</dt><dd><p>more than 12 years of school ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels (male,female) </p>
</dd>
<dt>bluecol</dt><dd><p>blue collar worker ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>smsa</dt><dd><p>lives is smsa ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>married</dt><dd><p>married ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>dkids</dt><dd><p>has kids ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>dykids</dt><dd><p>has young kids (0-5 yrs) ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>yrdispl</dt><dd><p> year of job displacement (1982=1,..., 1991=10)</p>
</dd>
<dt>rr</dt><dd><p>replacement rate</p>
</dd>
<dt>head</dt><dd><p>is  head of household ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ui</dt><dd><p> applied for (and received) UI benefits ?</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>McCall, B.P. (1995) &ldquo;The impact of unemployment insurance benefit levels on recipiency&rdquo;, <em>Journal of Business and Economic Statistics</em>, <b>13</b>, 189&ndash;198.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Verbeek, Marno (2004) <em>A Guide to Modern Econometrics</em>, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 7.
</p>
<p>Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : <a href="http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20">http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code>,
</p>
<p><code>Index.Time.Series</code></p>


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